March 24, 2006
Cable Pull
This one I needed help on....
Wingo called and asked if I needed any help. "Now that you mention it, yes. Could you grab a couple of reels of Quad-4 and a cable cart?" He brings them over and we set them up in the soon to be ex- conference room. The electricians ran me a 2" conduit back to the terminal room -- 160 feet from the above J-box. We tie/tape three quads to the pull string, I feed off the reels (so the tension of pulling off the reels is not added to the pull through the pipe) and Wingo pulls from the terminal room.
In the terminal room we pull in 30 feet of slack to run along the top of the red boards to the corner, down and under the raised floor, over to the rack and up to be terminated on the cat-5 patch panel.
In the conference room pull off about 30 feet of slack, feed individually to each of the 3/4" pipes to the wall outlet boxes where the cable is terminated on four Panduit jacks in a four position Panduit wall plate. Leave about three feet of slack up in the J-box in case either end ever needs re-terminating.
We also pulled a new pull string into that 2" pipe in case we ever need to pull additional cables over to the conference room area. There is another conference room next door that could get made into offices also.